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Ingrid Weckert: Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich 37 Jewish Reeducation Camps of the Hechaluz in Germany as of August 1936 Such re-training camps were established even in Austria, the former Ostmark, after its annexation. Adolf Eichmann, the director of the Vienna “Hauptamt für jüdische Auswanderung” (Main Office for Jewish Emigration) actively supported this program. Later, in concert with the Mossad, he vigorously supported illegal Jewish emigration. Occasionally, SS units escorted Jewish emigration groups across the border, and ensured that they crossed unhindered.

All Jews over 45 were to be able to remain in Germany and be protected from discrimination. Residential and work restrictions for these Jews were to be lifted. The text of the memorandum on the Rublee-Wohlthat Agreement was an official contract. Rublee wrote it up after his return to London, and sent it to Wohlthat. Weizsäcker Ingrid Weckert: Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich 43 hesitated to sign it,37 because the Foreign Ministry had not been involved in the negotiations – something he himself had prevented.

Germany’s leading National Socialist statesmen have in comments and speeches more than once emphasized that a New Order in Europe requires a radical solution of the Jewish question through evacuation (‘Judenreines Europa’). The evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe is a prerequisite for solving the Jewish question, which is possible only by resettling these masses in the homeland of the Jewish people, Palestine, and by establishing the Jewish State in its historic boundaries. To solve the Jewish problem in this way and once and for all to liberate the Jewish people is the aim of the political activity and the ongoing struggle of the Israeli freedom movement, the National Military Organization in Palestine (Irgun Zevai Leumi).